The author, a leader in one of the large house church networks, displays remarkable balance, insight, depth, knowledge, humility, and charity– not to mention the courage and zeal we have grown to expect from house church Christians in China.

With the death of Allen Yuan, one of the “patriarchs” of the 20th-century Chinese church, this biography, though written while he was still alive, takes on new significance.

David Aikman has given us perhaps the most useful introduction to the explosive increase and growing influence of Christianity in China.

This story of the life of Chinese house church leader Brother Yun is an amazing testament to the power of God in the face of persecution.